Edens v. State

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

Arnold Edens was convicted of the crime of obtaining property by false pretense (§ 41-1901 Ark. Stats.); and he prosecutes this appeal. The record is voluminous, and the motion for new trial contains sixty-five assignments, all of which are presented in the appellant’s brief and have been studied. We group and discuss them.

I. Preliminary Matters. A number of assignments relate to such preliminary matters as the signature on the information, a bill of particulars, endorsing the names of the witnesses on the information, motion for continuance, amount of bail,…